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catalytic activity; chemical bonding; chemical compounds; dissociation; gases; ionization; ions; mass spectrometry; spectrometers
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... Electrospray ionization provides a “treasure trove” of metal containing ions whose fundamental reactivity can be studied via collision induced dissociation and ion–molecule reactions using the multistage mass spectrometry capabilities of the quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer. Examples of metal mediated chemistry relevant to catalysis, C–C bond coupling, bioinorganic and supramolecular chemistr ...
... Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) has become an enabling technology for the fields of protein mass spectrometry (MS) and proteomics. Despite its widespread use, for example, in protein identification via peptide mass fingerprinting, a comprehensive model for the generation of free gas-phase ions has not yet been developed. All matrices in use today, such as α-cyano-4-hydroxycinna ...
... Superalkalies, due to lower ionization potentials than alkalies, possess potential reducing capability and can be used in the synthesis of a variety of charge transfer salts. In order to check whether superalkali hydroxides are as basic as a typical alkali hydroxide, we have performed a systematic investigation on the hydroxides of small FLiₙ (n = 2–5) superalkali clusters. The equilibrium structu ...
Gibbs free energy; desorption; gases; hydrogen bonding; ionization; lysine; mass spectrometry; temperature
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... To elucidate the mechanism of the exceptional behavior of lysine for the ionization (protonation) yields in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) observed by Nishikaze and Takayama [Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 2006, 20, 376], the temperature dependences of proton affinity (PA) and gas phase basicity for 20 amino acids are theoretically analyzed with correlated ab initio molecular or ...
... Measurements with sensor techniques in field analytical chemistry can be considerably affected by varying ambient conditions such as humidity. We systematically investigated the way in which ion mobility measurements are influenced by moisture. Both the peak positions of product ions within the spectrum and their relative abundance can vary depending on humidity. The transportation of humidity via ...
chemical elements; dehydrogenation; gases; ionization; naphthalene; spectroscopy
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... We report the first example of metal-mediated acetylene bicyclopentamerization to form naphthalene in the gas phase. The bicyclic aromatic compound was observed in a complex with La. The La(naphthalene) complex was formed by the reaction of laser-ablated La atoms with acetylene molecules in a molecular beam source and was characterized by mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy. The bicycl ...
... With the aim of developing a procedure for detecting and identifying intact acylated glucosinolates (a-GLSs) found in trace quantities in natural plant samples, extracts of Barbarea vulgaris seeds were analyzed by reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization and Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (RPLC-ESI FTICR MS). After a preliminary optimiz ...
... A complete methodology was developed for the determination of ten aliphatic and nine aromatic amines in atmospheric aerosol particles. Before the liquid chromatography — tandem mass spectrometric separation and determination, the derivatization reaction of the analytes using dansyl chloride was accelerated by ultrasounds. From three different ionization techniques studied electrospray ionization w ...
... Ambient mass spectrometry has attracted substantial attention in recent years. Among ambient ionization methods, thermal desorption ionization stands out because of two attributes: (1) simplicity, rendering the technique suitable for in-field applications, and (2) ability to couple with a variety of gas-phase ionization methods thereby broadening the range of molecules that can be analyzed with th ...
... Acrolein (Acr), a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, can react directly with genomic DNA to form mutagenic adducts without undergoing metabolic activation. To sensitively and accurately quantify Acr–DNA adducts (including structural isomers and stereoisomers) in human leukocytes, we developed an enhanced stable isotope dilution ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC)–tandem mass spect ...
... Quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics of complex biological samples remains challenging in part due to the variability and charge competition arising during electrospray ionization (ESI) of peptides and the subsequent transfer and detection of ions. These issues preclude direct quantification from signal intensity alone in the absence of a standard. A deeper understanding of the governin ...
Human rhinovirus; capsid; common cold; desorption; electrophoresis; electrospraying; encapsulation; gases; genome; ionization; mass spectrometry; molecular weight; particle size; proteins; serotypes; virion; viruses
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... Gas-phase electrophoretic mobility molecular analysis (GEMMA) separates nanometer-sized, single-charged particles according to their electrophoretic mobility (EM) diameter after transition to the gas-phase via a nano electrospray process. Electrospraying as a soft desorption/ionization technique preserves noncovalent biospecific interactions. GEMMA is therefore well suited for the analysis of inta ...
... Excimer lasers, widely used in the semiconductor industry, are crucial for analyzing the purity of premix laser gases for the purpose of controlling stable laser output power. In this study, we designed a system for analyzing impurities in pure neon (Ne) base gas by customized GC. Impurities in pure neon (H2 and He), which cannot be analyzed at the sub-μmol/mol level using commercial GC detectors, ...
... Plasma sources in atmospheric pressure soft-ionization mass spectrometry have gained significant interest in recent years. As many of these sources are used under ambient air conditions, their interaction with the surrounding atmosphere plays an important role in the ionization pathway. This study focuses on the interaction between the plasma source and the surrounding atmosphere by connecting the ...
... Main approaches to the determination of low-molecular-weight chemical compounds by surfaceassisted laser desorption/ionization (SALDI) are considered. Analytes are adsorbed from a gas phase on the surface of a specially prepared solid-state substrate. Then, the surface is exposed to pulse laser radiation, which leads to ionization and desorption of ions to be detected with a mass analyzer. The fac ...
enthalpy; gases; cobalt; aqueous solutions; aromatic compounds; copper; ionization; acetonitrile; electron transfer; dissociation; hydrogen; hydrogen bonding; antioxidant activity; metal ions
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... DFT studies on the conformational and antioxidant properties of kanakugiol were performed to investigate factors that contribute to its conformational preferences and to elucidate its antioxidant properties and mechanisms. The antioxidant activity has been considered through the ability of kanakugiol to scavenge free radical species and through its ability to chelate metal ions. The antiradical ac ...
Yelena Yefremova; F. Teresa I. Melder; Bright D. Danquah; Kwabena F.M. Opuni; Cornelia Koy; Alexandra Ehrens; David Frommholz; Harald Illges; Knut Koelbel; Frank Sobott; Michael O. Glocker
... We have developed a method to determine apparent activation energies of dissociation for ionized protein–protein complexes in the gas phase using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry following the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus quasi-equilibrium theory. Protein–protein complexes were formed in solution, transferred into the gas phase, and separated from excess free protein by ion mobility filt ...
... High resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-HRMS) was used to study the speciation of molybdate in interaction with halides (Cl, F, Br). Desolvation during electrospray ionization induced alteration of aqueous species but method optimization successfully suppressed artefact compounds. At low Mo concentrations, chloro(oxo)molybdate and fluoro(oxo)molybdate species were found and ...
... Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry is widely used for studying sequence determination and modification analysis of small RNAs. However, the efficiency of liquid chromatography-based separation of intact small RNA species is insufficient, since the physiochemical properties among small RNAs are very similar. In this study, we focused on ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS), which is a gas-ph ...